November 16, 2009

Dancing around the Truth

"Okay, enough with the dead horse already, Crane." :) Maybe, but I keep harping on this issue of Truth, because it is so fundamental, especially regarding something as life-altering as terrorist attacks. And it seems others are recognizing it as well.

This excellent article by Michael Goodwin points out how President Obama has been dancing around the harsh realities of the Ft. Hood massacre. (God forbid we call it terrorism.) Furthermore, over at the Culture and Media Institute, Carolyn Plocher and Dan Gainor point out how the MSM has been downplaying the connection between the terrorist act at Ft. Hood and Islam. Can we not call it what it is? How does downplaying the true reality help us in the long run?

This will continue to be a significant issue until the Islamic jihadists decide to lay down their car bombs (which they won't). And with the 9/11 terrorists' trials having been moved from Guantanamo Bay to NYC, the question of Truth will now be put to the test. Amidst the inevitable legal wrangling, let's hope Truth prevails in the end. The families of victims deserve justice, and so does the country.

Comments

The connection between the shooting at Ft. Hood and the shooter's Islamic faith began to emerge the day of the shooting and have only gotten more pronounced since then. The article I linked to in a previous post describes the connection in a way that is unmistakable. The writer explains it as "murder in the name of Islam". For those who do want to explore this issue further, feel free to go back and read that article (and other related articles) about this issue. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/09/the-fort-hood-killings-murder-in-the-name-of-islam/

'God forbid we call it terrorism' is taking it a bit far, I think. I mean honestly, there's a difference between an religious zealot massacring his coworkers and a highly-organized terrorist network.

By all means, let's call a spade a spade. But when you've got so many clear-cut cases of religiously-motivated attacks on a global scale, why waste soapbox time on a case that seems to have more in common with a school shooting than with Jihad?

Derek has a point. We're not sure we can call this terrorism. Terrorism has a definition, and until we all have the facts, we have to just call it a tragedy for the moment. If we know for sure that this dude was in real cahoots with bad guys like Al Quaeda Inc. et al (ha), then we can start labeling it as terrorism.

I don't understand why it matters whether it was terrorism or not. That's just semantics.

I think the real question here is why does this one particular religion seem to be so easily perversed? At some point, people of the Islamic faith should be getting angry at what is being done in there name. But I hear nothing but the same drivel after each incident. Where's the anger and embarrassment? Where's the commitment to root out the evil? And why are the rest of us so afraid to point out the obvious?